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From: naqvi@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Shahid A. Naqvi --Hercules--)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Magnetic Levitation of Organic Materials
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.222942.12775@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 22:29:42 GMT
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In article <40065@fmsrl7.UUCP> wreck@fmsrl7.UUCP (Ron Carter) writes:
>In article <1489@gtx.com> al@gtx.UUCP () writes:
>>I'm curious about the possibility of generating gradients like this on
>>a large scale so that, say, a person's body could be levitated.  Given
>>the above numbers, would this be technically possible?  Would the
>>great field strength or gradient thereof have any significant effect
>>on, say, electrical activity in nervous tissue or other life processes?
>
>Hell, yes.  Just think of the phenomena you have in the body:
>mildly-conductive fluids moving through tubes in a mildly-conductive
>matrix.  Now introduce an enormous magnetic field.  Every moving
>ion will experience a BxV force, and every blood vessel which is
>not parallel to the ambient field becomes an MHD generator of
>DC current (pulsating in the arteries, closer to continuous in
>the veins).
>
>I'm not sure if the currents would be enough to short out the
>neural circuitry which controls the heart, but I wouldn't want
>to find out personally.  It sounds dangerous.
>
>Yes, I'm a real double-E.

I think such an experiment would detonate the vessels or nerves before
it could levitate the body. Your soul would levitate before your body can!!!
Shahid, SDSU,EE